The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.